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ISSUE ADDRESSED Lowering the rates of adolescent overweight and obesity is a public health priority. The implementation of nutrition policies and practices in schools is recommended by various health organisations, but there is little information on the extent of their implementation. The aim of this study is to describe the prevalence of the implementation of recommended school-level nutrition policies and practices in secondary schools in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, and reported barriers and facilitators to the adoption of such policies and practices in school plans. METHODS A cross-sectional study was undertaken with school principals and canteen managers. All eligible secondary schools in NSW were approached to participate in a telephone survey (n = 440). Descriptive statistics were used to describe prevalence, and associations between school characteristics and implementation were examined using univariate statistics. RESULTS A total of 137 school principals and 80 canteen managers completed the sud parents, provision of resources and funding and staff training. © 2020 Australian Health Promotion Association.Organic micropollutants of anthropogenic origin in river waters may impair aquatic ecosystem health and drinking water quality. To evaluate micropollutant fate and turnover on a catchment scale, information on input source characteristics as well as spatial and temporal variability are required. The influence of tributaries from agricultural and urban areas and the input of wastewater were investigated by grab and Lagrangian sampling under base flow conditions within a 7.7 km long stretch of the Ammer River (Southwest Germany) using target screening for 83 organic micropollutants and four in-vitro bioassays with environmentally relevant modes of action. In total 9 pesticides and transformation products, 13 pharmaceuticals and 6 industrial and household chemicals were detected. Further, aryl hydrocarbon receptor induction, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor activity, estrogenicity and oxidative stress response was measured in the river. The vast majority of the compounds and mixture effects were introduced by the effluent of a wastewater treatment plant, which contributed 50% of the total flow rate of the river on the sampling day. The tributaries contributed little to the overall load of organic micropollutants and mixture effects due to their relatively low discharge but showed a different chemical and toxicological pattern than the Ammer River. Though, a comparison to effect-based trigger values pointed towards unacceptable surface water quality in the main stem and in some of the tributaries. Chemical analysis and in-vitro bioassays covered different windows of analyte properties but reflected the same picture. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.BACKGROUND AND AIM Cerebrovascular diseases are the second most common cause of death worldwide. Moderate and severe carotid artery stenosis causes nearly 10% of all strokes. LV geometry is a familiar prognostic and diagnostic factor in several populations; yet, data on its role in carotid artery stenosis are unknown. In our study, we investigated the prognostic value of LV geometry in predicting carotid artery stenosis severity in patients undergoing carotid artery stenting. METHODS Patients who underwent carotid artery stenting between January 2012 and January 2016 at our tertiary care center were evaluated retrospectively. Two hundred fifty-five patients who underwent carotid artery stenting were included in the study. Accessible echocardiographic documentation of ninety-eight patients was accessed and evaluated. RESULTS LV normal geometry was detected in 37 (37.7%) of the 98 carotid artery stenting (CAS) patients, concentric hypertrophy in 13 (13.2%), eccentric hypertrophy in 9 (9.1%), and concentric remodeling in 39 (39.7%). By a majority, distal filter was u